Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no I just left it cos it might , I do n't know it might of been side B , I think it was , side B was |
| 2 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 3 | Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality . |
| 4 | She says it used to be beautiful , but the rectory and the church are a disgrace . |
| 5 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 6 | But do you feel it ought to be a free market erm situation , at least to the extent that anyone can move into any area they wish to provided they could find a place to live ? |
| 7 | well we must wait on a bit , we 'll have to now , if she had n't phoned it would of been , you know something nice to think about wo n't it ? |
| 8 | When I came it used to be a very old building which belonged to British Legion club previously and er Sikhs bought from them . |
| 9 | But whether a monetarist or exchange rate policy is preferred it ought to be clear that the country can no longer endure an ambiguous mix of the two . |
| 10 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 11 | I think now that it exists it ought to be giving money to these things , but I think it ought to be taking the advice of the panels of artists and museum people . |
| 12 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
| 13 | Yeah I suppose it would of been alright like , but I do n't like keeping them |
| 14 | Well I suppose it must of been me but I have no idea when or why or where because I generally cut the erm side bits off . |
| 15 | He says that 's what you want but I said yeah but there ai n't no bloody fit I reckon it ought to be them on legs maybe . |
| 16 | I reckon it ought to be compulsory that . |
| 17 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
| 18 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 19 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 20 | I thought it would of been C cos they 're yellow over there i n't they ? |
| 21 | Oh , cheap , oh I thought it would of been about fifty pounds |
| 22 | I thought it might of been a women that was . |
| 23 | nothing went round and unplugged every phone out , wedged every one out cos we thought it might of been a station that 's going down , cos er I 'm saying about the mark one , the old |
| 24 | I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing |
| 25 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 26 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 27 | Do n't you think it would of been absolutely Super to have been Immortalised by Robert Burns ? |
| 28 | I suppose I can understand it now , I mean it must of been a lovely place , and then to have all these new houses going up you know , but erm , I mean there was some lovely , lovely lanes |
| 29 | But I mean it used to be every day |
| 30 | and I mean it used to be the fact , oh god well we 've got to sort of have dinner at twelve o'clock , we 've got to be round there by four . |